Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes, 1964)

A delusional woman who believes she has psychic powers bullies her ineffectual husband into kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy man so that she can enter the picture to help them find the daughter with her supposed abilities. But this is a dark piece, with stylistic echoes of Psycho and an overall air of Tales of the Unexpected, so when their ill-conceived plan soon goes south, it comes with a crushing sense of inevitability. It then gets even more claustrophobic and barmy, but the strong performances of Richard Attenborough as the henpecked husband and Kim Stanley as the monstrous wife are utterly commanding.

6/10